Sandra Rivera has held marketing and business development roles for 14 years at Intel, focused on communications networking markets and products, with responsibility for product marketing, segment marketing, channel and ecosystem marketing.  Currently Ms. Rivera drives TEM, OEM and End User Market Development for Intel’s Communications & Storage Infrastructure Group. She is also responsible for communications and storage infrastructure solutions integration and optimizations, ecosystem enabling and overall industry marketing.

Ms. Rivera is also on the board of the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) Linux Foundation collaborative project and serves as Marketing Chair of OPNFV.

Prior to Intel, Ms. Rivera co-founded The CTI Authority, a computer telephony distributor, served as president of Catalyst Telecom’s CT division and had responsibility for the Dialogic sales organization in the eastern US and Canada.  Ms. Rivera holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.